My Untold Life Story of How I Lost, Found and Remain Standing

Many self-help books and memoirs have been written to outline, describe and tell a story. They could be about someone the writer knows, and whom the writer wishes to pay tribute to by sharing to readers what he/she has learned from the book's primary character. A memoir could be the writer's story, which, based on actual events, has given a whole new meaning to life-and living that life. This book combines all the elements of both types of stories.This book aims to reveal aspects of... More Description

Many self-help books and memoirs have been written to outline, describe and tell a story. They could be about someone the writer knows, and whom the writer wishes to pay tribute to by sharing to readers what he/she has learned from the book's primary character. A memoir could be the writer's story, which, based on actual events, has given a whole new meaning to life-and living that life. This book combines all the elements of both types of stories.This book aims to reveal aspects of the writer's life that only a select few actually know of: her husband, her parents, her sisters and brother, her closest friends. It brings readers through the writer's various experiences, her struggles, her wildest fears and anxieties, her innermost feelings. Because a lot of internal recollection came into this book's creation, readers will notice a more poignant rendering of everyday events that can be considered afterwards as not-so-everyday. How a widow copes with the death of her husband and also that of her father will tear readers' hearts in such a manner that anyone, whether they're just happening to be reading cursorily or are into the book with the intention of reading it through, would feel a pathos for the writer and those other characters that she brings into the story. By weaving her emotions and feelings into the completion of the book, Kaycee Barnes is able to invite readers to share in the profound sadness she feels, the confusions she goes through, the sense of clarity that she mercifully seeks for and works hard to achieve. It's not easy to bring out the most significant aspects of any story, but readers will get a first hand glimpse of how people like Kaycee live in a world all their own, a world that is not at all perfect but is still beautiful for all its imperfections. While the human memory does have its limits in as far as intimate or tiniest details are concerned, anyone can see that Ms. Barnes was not completely unafraid in her revelations and still honestly faced moments of regret in significant points of her life. Get to know the human being in the writer as she has written from the bottom of her heart in order to make her readers come into the movie that was her life, all seven years of her young widowhood filled with love, unending faith, and her stories of her own survival. Without sounding preachy, Kaycee shares essential concepts of parenthood that many readers will also learn from and welcome as they struggle through their own state of parenthood. The choice to have children is one that is a real challenge to make, and to rear those children in the way that one can be proud of is an even bigger challenge. While the writer subscribes to this fact completely, she shows us how we all can love and cherish the experience of being a parent, to revel in all the experiences we can have with our children, and come out more enlightened and grateful that we have made the choice to be a parent. The writer has crafted this book in order for readers to understand that individuals like her exist not in the fertile imagination of people, but live and breathe the air that more blessed individuals also breathe. And, as Kaycee believes, there is much to life than can ever be understood by the majority of us, but there still is much to living that we should contemplate being thankful for. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kaycee Barnes lives with her seven children in the house that her parents built in Texas. She looks forward to someday building her late husband's dream house, making her parents' house bigger, and having her own children and her grandchildren live with her in a peaceful home she can finally call her own. She has taught English as a Second Language to Asian students and is a freelance online writer. The name Kaycee Barnes is a pseudonym.Blog: www.kayceebarnes.com